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On February 27, 2026, the Keiyo Indigenous Community filed a formal grievance with the United Nations Development Programme’s Social and Environmental Compliance Unit, alleging that a $2.68 million conservation project

“We have nothing to do with that.” An American Medical Association staff member said this to me with a look of disdain on her face. I was at the AMA’s

The federal monitor charged with rooting out ā€œfraud, corruption, illegal behavior, dishonesty, and unethical practicesā€ in the Auto Workers union issued a report today accusing UAW President Shawn Fain of ā€œretaliationā€ against

Let’s consider a fact so stark it barely registers: the world’s five richest billionaires have more than doubled their wealth since 2020. Meanwhile, 60 percent of humanity has grown poorer

During the 2018–2020 Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), attacks on treatment centres, resistance to contact tracing, and widespread distrust of responders repeatedly undermined efforts to contain the

As we enter what is likely the worst El NiƱo event in history, amid geopolitical turmoil that would have put our systems under grave pressure even on its own, consideration of how we

Americans usually think about confrontation with Iran in terms of sanctions, warships, nuclear sites, and diplomatic ultimatums. But an equally important front doesn’t involve firepower or government threats: the media

On Sunday, June 21, Colombian voters went to the polls to vote in the second round of the presidential election. That same night, after an intense campaign, Abelardo de la

As an African feminist pushing against how systems of oppression endeavor to constrain and diminish, I am concerned with the functions of violence. Violence in its myriad forms serves to

While El Salvador’s government promotes its countries’ beaches, volcanoes, and safe streets in gentrified neighborhoods, thousands of Salvadoran families are denouncing arbitrary detentions and seeking justice for relatives imprisoned under

After a Mintz corporate law firm legal team (led by a former research assistant to the late Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Joseph Nolan and a former Executive Director of

On June 25, the Supreme Court drastically expanded the Trump administration’s ability to shape the nation’s immigration system. In two separate 6-3 decisions, the court’s conservative majority ruled that the

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